pokemon crystal japanese version rom english

So ideally we want a 128Mbit flash rom (or maybe larger capacity would work) that has the same physical dimensions and pinouts - tho equivalent pinouts in a different physical form could potentially be managed with an ugly wiring job, hopefully that won't be needed.Īnyone know how I'd go about trying to find that? If there are good starting points for research it could cut down a lot of time on random googling. Googling the number starting with MX finds lots of places to buy it, but not a great deal of tech spec info, but the number '128' is in there which agrees with interweb data that the game is 128Megabit (16MegaByte). The smaller chip is FRAM for saves, and the larger one is the maskrom. I found a nice clear photo on ebay of the American cartridge PCB, hopefully the Japanese one would be the same. So the next steps of this specific plan involve identifying the chip on the cart and finding a flashable chip that would work in its place. My soldering skills are not currently up to this task, but I've bought new kit and improving my skills is already a separate plan.

Plan: buy cheap Japanese version of the game (Mawaru Made in Wario), flash American ROM of the game to a suitable ROM chip, replace the ROM chip in the Japanese cart. I could try playing it emulated on Switch with motion controls, or play the Japanese cart and miss out on I don't know how much, but maybe a fun electronics project could result in a better solution.

I'd like to try WarioWare Twisted, but a) it was never released in Europe, b) I can't read Japanese, c) American carts of it are expensive. Backstory: Having always thought I probably wouldn't be into the WarioWare games, but then constantly seeing them near the top of best GBA games lists when I got my Micro, I've been playing the first WarioWare game and really enjoying it - and am almost done with it.

Pokemon crystal japanese version rom english